Genital white piedra: an emerging new fungal disease?
Abstract
FROM JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1978, 300 MALE STUDENTS WERE EXAMINED FOR SUPER FICIAL FUNGUS LESIONS. THEIR AGE RANGED FROM 18 TO 25 YEARS. MATERIAL WAS COLLECTED BY THE SQUARE CARPET TECHNIQUE (25,26). EACH PATIENT RECEI VED THREE SQUARES OF STERILIZED WOOL CARPET TO RUB ON THREE DIFFERENT SITES OF THEIR GENITAL REGION: PUBIC, SCROTAL, AND INGUINAL. THE SQUARES WERE THEN USED TO INOCULATED SABOURAUD'S DEXTROSE AGAR PLATES. THE ISOLA TES WERE REGULARLY OBSERVED FOR 4 WEEKS. ALL CULTURES SUSPECTED OF BEING P. HORTAI OR T. BEIGELII WERE SUBCULTURED IN TUBES OF SABOURAUD'S MEDIUM GROSS MORPHOLOGY AND MICROSCOPIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COLONIES WERE OBSERVED. SLIDE CULTURES WERE ALSO PREPARED OF EACH ISOLATE. COLONIZA TION OF T. BEIGELII WAS TRIED ON HUMAN, GUINEA PIG, AND RABBIT HAIR IN VITRO. WHEN T. BEGELII WAS ISOLATED, THE PATIENTS WERE ASKED TO CUT HAIR FROM THE POSITIVE REGION FOR EXAMINATION
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